Disney managed to do something that I didn’t think was possible: they made Star Wars movies that were so bad that the prequels looked good in comparison. That’s amazing, and not in a good way.
An acquaintance once said that “the prequels are the best of the fan films.”
I still want to know who to blame for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
The prequels were clunky and the midichlorians unforgiveable. But I didn’t hate them.
I watched “The Force Awakens” in the theater. I watched “The Last Jedi” on Netflix. And I haven’t watched the last one because it’s not free and I ran out of barf bags.
But on the plus side the latest trilogy inspired dozens of very funny critiques on youtube.
Any executive worth his salt would have fired Kathleen Kennedy and her entire stable, regardless of the financial consequences. Disney’s CEO is a wimp.
I'm in 100% agreement that the wokeness is bad and the overall quality is not as good as older Star Wars movies.
But there is an impossible problem for Disney: making us middle-agers enjoy a space fantasy today as much as we did as kids when when we had much more imagination then than we do now. So when I criticize the new movies, I criticize them only so much knowing it's impossible for them to live up the standard of me enjoying space fantasies like I used to.
One thing I will say that's still good about the SW movies: the music.
broad generalization here:
first three movies- good, at least halfway thru jedi
second three, prequels - ok, somewhat boring/monotonic acting
third three - screw the fans, kill off the old male characters, push girl power/mary sue from nowhere,just make her a “skywalker” cuz we say so